SAN JOSE, California, January 15 /PRNewswire/ --

- XMEGA Garners Award for Innovative Advancement in the 8/16-bit MCU Market

Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) today announced its industry leading XMEGA(TM) microcontroller was awarded the 2008 Product of the Year by Electronic Products' Magazine. Since its introduction in early 2008, there have been over 400 design wins to validate this award.

LONDON, January 15 /PRNewswire/ --

- Hard-Hitting new Cinema Advert to Warn About Risks of Fake Medicine

- The First Collaboration of its Kind Between the Pharmaceutical Industry, Health Regulators and Patient Representatives to Combat the Threat Posed by Fake Medicine

- 330,000 Men in the UK Admit to Purchasing Prescription Only Medicine From Unregulated Sources(1)

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A hard-hitting advert will hit cinema screens across the country this Friday (16 January) in a bid to warn people about the real risks of purchasing prescription only medicine, without a prescription, from unregulated sources such as illicit websites.

MOSCOW, January 15 /PRNewswire/ -- ElcomSoft Co. Ltd. puts ATI and NVIDIA hardware to work accelerating the recovery of Wi-Fi passwords. The newly released Elcomsoft Wireless Security Auditor 1.0 benefits from the ability of last-generation video cards manufactured by ATI and NVIDIA to munch numbers faster, allowing its users to recover Wi-Fi passwords faster than ever before.

LONDON and STUTTGART, Germany, January 15 /PRNewswire/ --

- Moneybookers' Payment Interface Offers Quick and Easy Integration Into Online Shops - Increased Turnover Through Integration of Worldwide Payment Network - Moneybookers Cooperates With Phoenix Media

LONDON, January 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Created in 2006, the Cartier Women's Initiative Awards are an international business plan competition given annually to five laureates, one per continent. For the third awards, Cartier is looking for innovative women-led business projects in the start-up phase. Apply before February 13, 2009.

Who can apply? Women entrepreneurs from any country and of any nationality are invited to apply by presenting a business project yet to be launched or a company less than 3 years old.

HELSINKI, January 15 /PRNewswire/ --

- Comptel Partners With Comware to Deliver a Complete Solution to Charge for WiMAX Services

Comptel Corporation (OMX Helsinki: CTL1V), the leading vendor of dynamic Operations Support System (OSS) software, announced today that an unnamed Taiwanese WiMAX operator has selected Comptel Convergent Mediation Solution. Comptel is partnering with Taiwan-based billing vendor Comware to deliver the complete charging solution for the postpaid and prepaid services the operator will be offering over their WiMAX network.

LONDON, January 15 /PRNewswire/ -- On a visit to the North West (15th January 2008), Derek Simpson the joint leader of Unite, will call for a GBP1bn strategic fund, to support jobs in the UK's second biggest regional economy.

Mr Simpson will meet workplace representatives working in occupations across manufacturing, health and finance this Thursday 15th January. The union is calling for a GBP13 billion strategic support package from Government, similar to the support provided last year by the German, French and Swedish governments to their manufacturing sectors. The union believes GBP1bn should be used to support vital industries in the North West like car manufacturing and aerospace.

Unite Joint General secretary Derek Simpson said:

LONDON, January 15 /PRNewswire/ --

- PASCO Participates in Kazakhstan's Efforts to Infuse Schools with Innovative Technology and Build World-Class Education System

PASCO scientific today announced an alliance with The Republic of Kazakhstan to bring interactive, hands-on science technology to schools throughout the country. PASCO, a science education company and global leader in innovative solutions for hands-on science, made the announcement at BETT, the world's largest education technology event.

Kazakhstan is poised to take the world stage as it steps up efforts to make science education a national priority, said PASCO's Chief Education Officer Wayne Grant, Ph.D.

At 10¹⁴ gauss, atoms are compressed into tiny needles whose widths are only 1% of their lengths. X-ray photons readily undergo an exotic process where they change into matter and anti-matter particles briefly, before rejoining and turning back into light. Even at a distance of 1000 km, the slight polarization of water molecules would tear apart any Earth organism. So where do you find magnetic fields of such awe-inspiring strength? Attached to exotic objects in deep space, of course.

PORTLAND, Oregon, January 15 /PRNewswire/ --

- Sun, Intel collaboration expands choice for developers and end users

The Itanium(R) Solutions Alliance is pleased to recognize the collaborative effort between Intel and Sun Microsystems to port Sun's Java(TM) Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE) to Itanium-based systems. Now generally available, Java SE 6 for Itanium furnishes a robust Java development platform for Itanium-based solutions for both Windows and Linux environments.